Alexander: Trump called him on ObamaCare fix bill
Source: The Hill
BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 10/18/17 09:27 AM EDT
Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said President Trump called him Wednesday morning expressing optimism about the bipartisan health plan.
"He called me to say that number one, he wanted to be encouraging about the bipartisan agreement that Sen. [Patty] Murray and I announced yesterday," Alexander said at an Axios event Wednesday. "Number two, he intends to review it carefully to see if he wants to add anything to it."
Alexander and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced Tuesday afternoon that they'd reached a deal to stabilize the insurance markets by funding ObamaCare's insurance payments for two years.
It would also change rules that insurers must meet under the health-care law as long as consumers are still offered comparable affordability.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/355977-alexander-trump-backs-obamacare-fix-bill
underpants
(182,877 posts)brooklynite
(94,727 posts)highplainsdem
(49,034 posts)Doodley
(9,124 posts)paid, from his rich Daddy, from every poor bastard who has done a deal with him.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)That dumb shit can't even read!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)What he is saying by he wants to "review it carefully to see if he wants to add anything to it."
is to "add" that subsidies will not be funded, period.
Then send it back to congress, and explain how he is working with Democrats and Republicans and supports this bipartisan bill, plus his little tweek. And when Democrats rightfully object to his rewriting of their bill, he'll say it is they who are causing trouble, and backing out.
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)So.......
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)uninsured in hospitals across the lands. Costing States billions & billions & billions to care for poor uninsured sick people.
Of course Republicans could start taking a look at price gouging medical treatments and $500 a tablet medicines, but noooo, Republicans love to support price gouged insurance.